In his recent book The Amphibious Soul, filmmaker and journalist Craig Foster offers a remedy for depression, anxiety, and the lonely—often disconnected—feelings that plague today’s chronically online culture. We must return to nature: swim, take hikes, let the ocean heal us.
Foster grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and Foster was practically born in the water. While filming the documentary My Hunter’s Heart (2010), he traveled to Namibia to film the traditional nomadic life of Khomani San tribe. His cameras were rolling as the tribe hunted giraffe over several days. At the end, he participated in a ritual dance lasting “through the night and into the following day as the people sang and celebrated the success of the giraffe hunt.” It’s not the kind thing one gets to experience while working in a cubicle or remotely for Google. Foster wants us to get reconnected to our wild side.
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